911 Incidents in Seattle

* Disclaimer: This app does not represent any government entity.

Note: Data source for the app comes from the City of Seattle's Fire Dept. For more detailed information about the data, visit https://web.seattle.gov/sfd/realtime911/

Users can monitor the real time 911 dispatches (updated every 5 minutes), and report incidents (updated within 6 to 12 hours). The incidents can be viewed as a text list or on a map as icons or heat map. Examples of incidents include burglary, accident, fire, assault, drugs, death, and many more. Incident details can be viewed by touching an item on the list or a marker on the map display. A function is available to easily filter incidents by tags from the list or map. The app allows the user to send the incident location to Google Maps for better visualization of the 911 incident environment. Also has functions to measure linear distances and circular buffer zones around incidents.